The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-11-16
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

tehci Sfocer, 10 rcporteu.
The Sunday school at the Ionia House
Of Correction has membership of 100.
The Chicago and Grand Trunk Rail-
way will establish free carriage at Lansing.
The business men of Bay City favor
the construction of belt line around that
city.
Burglars entered the saloon Of J. II.
Smith, at Muskegon. and robbed il of
SIPS.
"A Chesterfield man has a hog twenty
five months old that is the mother OF fifty
nine pigs.
The Wood Extract Company will dou-
BILE their capacity soon at Luther, putting
in six new retorts.
-Traver Il Son, proprietors Of the Mich
igan Hoop Company, have moved from st.
Louis TO Saginaw.
John King nearly died in the country
near Plymouth on account of an immense
meal of raw chestnuts.
The assessed valuation Of Mancelona
has been raised nearly $4,000 by the
Board of Supervisors.
>-Auditor General Aplin has discharged
sixteen clerks, some Of them uncondition-
ally, and some to be reinstated when the
work of the Office requires them.
A vassar barber has baby 10 months
old that caught live mouse the other day
and proceeded to eat it, hide, hoofs, and
all. Tho squealing vermin was rescued,
fortunately, before the baby had succeeded
in its design.
w. II. Riley fell sixty feet from off
Marshal Gates new block at Kalamazoo.
He struck on hod rest and finally landed
in bed of mortar. He broke his left leg
badly at the thigh, broke an arm, and was
otherwise bruised.
AT Jackson an East Main street drug
gist was seen to walk several yards the
other afternoon to remove q banana peel
Srom the sidewalk. Such performance
is rare at all times, but when done by
dealer in arnica and porous plasters, is
doubly so.
The Board of Control of the State
School for the Blind have placed iron bars
across the windows of the rooms Of the
employees of that institution, except those
Of the teachers. The employees regarded
this action as an insult, and most of them
quit in body.
Miss May Allen Pierce died at Jackson
aTfa n ha De-
ton and was to take part in an opera which
was to be produced at Jackson in a few
days. She was the adopted daughter of
Prof. w. Nj. Skinner, of Boston. The re-
mains were sent to Boston.
"A Jackson father bought his only son
handsome target rifle with which to kill
sparrows. The lad has owned the gun
nearly year, has shot off .one of his fingers,
ruined two suits of clothes. been licked by
a neighbours boy for shooting at the family
cat, and has managed to kill one sparrow,
for which he is entitled to one cent bounty.
One man in Kalamazoo has bought a
cast-iron rail box for bis porch. He has
just found S25 draft moldering in the
grass in his front yard, where it had lain
since the playful breezes captured it four
weeks ago. He is now sweating over an
eight-page apology which he feels he must
send to square the abuse he heaped upon
the fellow who owed him.
jacob Moors, of Iona, boasts he can
show an apple that is 40 years old, and that
the orchard in which it grew has been en-
tirely obliterated. 1t grew down in Lam
caster County, Penn, and was probably
one of those gnarly little things that are
harder than Pharaoh's heart, and were
often us d as bullets by the early settlers
in times when lead was scarce.
"A tragedy occurred in Amboy, result.
ing in the death of John White at the
hands of James Wells. In the forenoon
White went to Wells house and got into
quarrel with him about ditch. In the
quarrel White struck Wells q blow in the
face. Wells then picked up stick and
struck White on the head. White died
from the effects of the blow. Wells is now
in Jail.
Recently five young men of Hillsdale
hired a livery rig and started for Jonesville,
six miles. While on the way they lost con-
troll of the horses, and were upset. James
Dorey broke his leg above the ankle, the
bone protruding through the flesh three
inches. He also sustained internal inju-
ries, and now lies in precarious condi-
ton. The other members of the party es-
capped with slight bruises.
Pensions: Ellen, mother Of William
Johnson, Mus kegon; Jane NJ, widow of
Robert McCrary, Royce; Lucy j., widow
of Samuel Wilson, Detroit; Phoebe, widow
of Alonzo G. Newton, Lowell; Frances E.,
widow Of John C. Wolverton, Flint; Betsy,
widow of Moses Milligan, Leroy; John
Friebe, alias John Fradd, Bay City; Seth
Markham, st. Charles; Isaac Z. Bramen,
st. Joseph; Thomas Kline, Clifford; Simon
Larcy, Kalamazoo; Hugh Mckinley, Pc
toskey; Christopher II. Ford, Berrien
Springs; Charles Faas, Riga; John S. CAL
lah